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📍Tracking the news, research and thoughts on the geopolitics of digital technologies (⚠️ semiconductors)
Economical competition📈, social and environmental stakes...
'Cause the virtual world 🌐 looks awfully material 🌏 !
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#ShowDontTell 👀 Here's some interactive maps of the major internet infrastructures around the globe🗺️⤵️
If you're often at a loss as to the details of the internet, worry no more, you can visualize it !
First here's a quick run through of Internet's working and history :
urlr.me/JW9eYC
Géopolitique du numérique » d’Ophélie Coelho : un essai qui montre comment les Big Tech, via data centers, câbles sous-marins et satellites, transforment Internet en instrument de puissance et posent la question de notre souveraineté numérique.
editionsatelier.com/boutique/acc...
Géopolitique du numérique : l'impérialisme à pas de géants
Voyage à la fois historique et géographique, ce livre nous donne voir un nouveau théâtre d’opérations où, loin de l’utopie d’un internet sans frontières, l’impérialisme technologique avance à pas de g...
editionsatelier.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🇫🇷 🎥 Le Dessous des Cartes (Arte) analyse comment l’IA redéfinit les rapports de puissance et les enjeux de souveraineté.
🇬🇧 🎥 ARTE’s Le Dessous des Cartes shows how AI reshapes power dynamics and digital sovereignty.

🔗 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zcn88-nq14](www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zcn...)
Intelligence artificielle : un défi pour l'Europe | L'Essentiel du Dessous des cartes
YouTube video by Le Dessous des Cartes - ARTE
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🇨🇳 - 🇯🇵
Tensions in Asia

“China must resolutely hit back,” said China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, referring to what Beijing sees as a potential Japanese military threat regarding Taiwan.

What would become of the global tech industry if a war broke out over Taiwan ?

www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...
China says Japan sent 'shocking' wrong signal on Taiwan
Japan dismissed China's claims as "entirely unacceptable" and said its commitment to peace was unchanged.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
🇺🇸 - 🇨🇳 Chip war :

More US chipmakers will no longer be allowed to purchase from Chinese companies under a new bill connected to the Chip Act (federal statute enacted to strengthen U.S. semiconductor production through federal subsidies).

manufacturing.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/hi-...
US lawmakers target Chinese chipmaking equipment imports by CHIPS Act grant recipients
CHIPS Act: The legislation targets equipment from China and other nations of concern. Exceptions exist for tools not available elsewhere. This move seeks to bolster domestic chip manufacturing and add...
manufacturing.economictimes.indiatimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Reposted by GeoNum
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act could offer a useful framework for Europeans and Gulf partners to work together, write @cinziabianco.bsky.social and Herman Quarles @ecfrmena.bsky.social @ecfrpower.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/3MdxkEk
Trump’s AI thaw: How Europe and the Gulf can protect against American and Chinese tech pressure
Recent changes in US policy have brought the US and Gulf states together again on AI—creating new openings for European decision-makers…
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🇫🇷 🎥 Le Dessous des Cartes (Arte) analyse la course mondiale à l’IA entre États-Unis et Chine : innovation, puissance militaire et souveraineté numérique.
🇬🇧 🎥 ARTE’s Le Dessous des Cartes explores the US–China AI race and its strategic stakes.
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQl...
Intelligence artificielle : une compétition mondiale | Le dessous des cartes - ARTE
YouTube video by Le Dessous des Cartes - ARTE
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Taiwan is tightening export controls on dual-use (civilian-military) technologies from quantum computing to advanced semiconductors.

This comes just one day after a Chinese drone was detected this Monday near a southern island close to Taiwan.

www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
Taiwan to add 18 items to tech export control list - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
FR- L’ère de l’IA exige des data centers plus efficients : capacité, interconnexions et régulation deviennent critiques.

ENG- The AI era needs reinvented data centers and a rewired grid: capacity, connectivity and smart policy are now essential.
www.newsweek.com/powering-the...
Powering the AI Era—Reinvent Data Centers, Rewire the Grid and Unleash Innovation | Opinion
The decisions made today will shape America’s AI future.
www.newsweek.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
An identity crisis for 🇪🇺 ?
After a rather failed attempt to attract (US) chips manufacturers, the UE is struggling to find its place in the supply chain and reckoning with the new weapons of the technological competition, like export controls, "which aren't yet part of Brussels' repertoire."
"[The first chips act] put an emphasis on manufacturing [...] but there are also other parts of the supply chain [...] How we can cultivate those niches and how we leverage them is something that needs to be discussed" - @chiara-malaponti.bsky.social @politico.com

www.politico.eu/article/micr...
Chip scare sends Brussels back to the drawing board
As the U.S. and China weaponize valuable chip supplies, the EU is forced to admit it hasn’t yet found a solution.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Le sommet sur la souveraineté numérique européenne a lieu aujourd’hui 18/11 à Berlin. 800 européens seront présents 🇪🇺 : représentants des institutions, d’entreprises, la société civile et la commission européenne. Les sujets traités seront : compétitivité, souveraineté et innovation européenne.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#ShowDontTell 👀 Here's some interactive maps of the major internet infrastructures around the globe🗺️⤵️
If you're often at a loss as to the details of the internet, worry no more, you can visualize it !
First here's a quick run through of Internet's working and history :
urlr.me/JW9eYC
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🇫🇷 Les États-Unis renforcent leur autonomie numérique : l’Arizona devient un hub clé pour les semi-conducteurs.

🇬🇧The US is boosting digital autonomy as Arizona becomes a key semiconductor hub. A strategic move for tech sovereignty.
markets.financialcontent.com/wral/article...
The Silicon Desert Blooms: Arizona Forges America’s New Semiconductor Frontier
The Silicon Desert Blooms: Arizona Forges America’s New Semiconductor Frontier
markets.financialcontent.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Zoom : 🇺🇸 data-centers and who pays for them ? Aside the environmental cost, data-centers have a financial cost too. In the USA questions arise about those informational hubs and their local effects, through their actual tax incomes or their energy demands. ⤵️
First where are those data-centers ?
Mapped: The Massive Network Powering U.S. Data Centers
Mapped: Where America’s data centers are located—and how their growing power needs are straining the U.S. electricity grid.
www.visualcapitalist.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🇫🇷 Ténèze montre comment Israël a bâti une puissance cyber fondée sur l’alliance du civil et du militaire.
🇬🇧 Israel’s cyberpower stems from tight civil-military cooperation.

📚 Revue Défense Nationale (2015)
🔗 shs.cairn.info/revue-defens...
shs.cairn.info
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🇫🇷 O. Coelho révèle comment les GAFAM bâtissent un impérialisme numérique fondé sur dépendance et puissance technologique.
🇬🇧 O. Coelho shows how GAFAMs build a digital imperialism rooted in dependence and tech power.

📚 Ouvrage de référence disponible sur Cairn:
🔗 shs.cairn.info/geopolitique...
shs.cairn.info
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by GeoNum
This video is really important.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.

@katecrawford.bsky.social
Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🇺🇸/🇨🇳 AI in geoeconomics poses a choice between "a divided future [techno-nationalism] and one where rivals, however reluctantly, agree on the rules of engagement for this transformative technology."

See Adora Yin's article on Sputnik-Deep Seek analogy :
ajosr.org/wp-content/u...
ajosr.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"The EU AI Act offers a vital framework for ensuring the safe and ethical use of AI in health care but its effectiveness depends on balanced implementation amid geopolitical uncertainty"

On AI technologies, regulations and healthcare in the EU :
ai.jmir.org/2025/1/e75527/
Balancing Innovation and Control: The European Union AI Act in an Era of Global Uncertainty
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), adopted in 2024, represents a landmark regulatory framework for AI systems, with profound implications for healthcare. This paper examines th...
ai.jmir.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM